Maggie Feller quotes from In Her Shoes (2005)

Maggie Feller

I carry your heart with me. I carry it in my heart. I am never without it. Anywhere I go, you go, my dear. And whatever is done by only me... is your doing, my darling. I fear no fate... for you are my fate, my sweet. I want no world, for, beautiful... you are my world, my true. Here is the deepest secret no one knows. Here is the root of the root... and the bud of the bud... and the sky of the sky of a tree called life... which grows higher than the soul can hope... or mind can hide. It is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart. I carry your heart. I carry it in my heart.

Maggie Feller

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem... f... filled... with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master. I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent. I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster. Even losing you... the joking voice, a gesture I love... I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like... Write it!... like disaster.

Rose

I think you should get a job so you don't have to mooch off me for everything.

Maggie

What are you talking about? I just got us two rounds of drinks.

Rose

No, Cuervo Carl got the drinks and only because he's hoped you'd sleep with him.

Maggie

Well, I didn't.

Rose

You need a job Maggie.

Maggie

I'll get one, When im ready.

Rose

There's a whole world out there that has nothing to do with sex you know.

Maggie

What the **** is that supposed to mean?

Maggie

SHUT UP YOU FAT PIG!!

Rose

Did you honestly just say "Fat pig"? You're my sister...and the best you can do is "fat pig"? :[slams Maggie against the wall] GET OUT OF MY LIFE!!

Maggie

Oh! [starts sobbing]

Maggie Feller

Shoes like these should not be locked in a closet! They should be living a life of scandal, and passion, and getting screwed in an alleyway by a billionaire while his frigid wife waits in the limo thinking that he just went back into the bar to get his cellphone. These are cute too.

Rose Feller

Please tell me you just made that up.

Maggie Feller

Look, if you're not going to wear them... don't buy them! Leave them for someone who's going to get something out of them.

Rose Feller

I get something out of them! When I feel bad I like to treat myself. Clothes never look any good... food just makes me fatter... shoes always fit.

Rose Feller

I don't know what's wrong with your girls. My Marcia never uses the word vagina!

Maggie Feller

My Marcia doesn't even have a vagina!

Rose Feller

Oh, My Marcia has a vagina alright, but My Marcia's vagina is made of solid 24 karat gold!

Maggie Feller

My Marcia's vagina is so perfect, it's in a museum!

Rose Feller

Why can't I just stay mad at you?

Maggie Feller

Because we're a pair. Like... Sonny & Cher.

Rose Feller

They broke up.

Maggie Feller

But they remained quite close.

Rose Feller

I liked you... I really liked you. She won't even remember your name. Probably can't even spell it. [to her sister] Can you, Maggie? Come on, sound it out. Juh-imm. Jim. Oh, she's pretty, this one... but real stupid.

Maggie Feller

SHUT UP YOU FAT PIG!!

Rose Feller

Did you honestly just say "Fat pig"? You're my sister...and the best you can do is "fat pig"? :[slams Maggie against the wall] GET OUT OF MY LIFE!!

Maggie Feller

Oh! [starts sobbing]

Wrong dresser. It's in the sock drawer.

Maggie Feller

What?

My cash. That's what you were looking for, right? That's what you want.

Maggie Feller

No! God!

Oh, well. I guess after being absent for some 20-odd years I can't expect you to want to have a relationship with me. How much?

Maggie Feller

How much what?

Money, Maggie! How much money were you hoping to get from me?

Maggie Feller

...I don't know.

Yes, you do.

Maggie Feller

I want to go to New York. Maybe act. I think I'd be good at it.

Humph, clearly!... How much do you need?

Maggie Feller

Three grand.

That you would not have found in the sock drawer... How much do you have?

I won't give you three-thousand dollars, but I'll do this; they need help down at the assisted living center. You get that job, stop loafing around here like a princess...

... and I will match what you earn, penny for penny.

Maggie Feller

... You would do that?

Maggie Feller

... Why?

Because I'm your Grandmother.